ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)
The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
(electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
(computing) Ghost imaging.
A form of identity theft in which someone steals the identity, and sometimes even the role within society, of a specific dead person (the "ghost") who is not widely known to be deceased.
(computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.
(slang) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation. [from 2014]
The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
ghosting
present participle of ghost
Source: Wiktionary
Ghost, n. Etym: [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gast breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. g spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.]
1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.] Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser.
2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak. I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge.
3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe.
4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. Ghost moth (Zoöl.), a large European moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift.
– Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity.
– To give up or yield up the ghost, to die; to expire. And he gave up the ghost full softly. Chaucer. Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Gen. xlix. 33.
Ghost, v. i.
Definition: To die; to expire. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
Ghost, v. t.
Definition: To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
